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Consider one that has almost got lost. This is the 50th anniversary of the enforced famine, engineered by Stalin, in which some 8 million to 10 million Ukrainians and Cossacks perished. Their extermination was a matter of state policy, just as the ovens of Dachau were a matter of state policy. The Ukrainian kulaks died under the great brute wheel of an idea. They died for the convenience of the state, to help with the organization of the new order of things...
...wearing only his socks. West German counterintelligence foiled the plot by extracting a promise from the newspapers not to publish the photos. The KGB tried to snare U.S. Assistant Military Attaché James Holbrook in a similar "honey trap" of seductive female agents during a visit to the Ukrainian city of Rovno in 1981. He reported the misadventure to U.S. officials and was sent home...
...Adam Ulam is concerned about "the general dearth of specialists" as many of his senior faculty members approach retirement. The center operates on the same $175,000 annual budget that it had in the mid-1960s, which makes it increasingly difficult to fund major research projects. Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute has fared a little better, only because 10,000 Ukrainian Americans have supported it with gifts of more than $4 million over the past decade. Indiana University's Russian and East European Institute director Alexander Rabinowitch admits, "We're only managing to muddle through. For lack...
After the war Brezhnev rose steadily in the Ukrainian party organization as a protege of Khrushchev's; he followed his mentor to Moscow in the early '50s, and was subsequently dispatched to a key job in Kazakhstan. Brezhnev helped administer Khrushchev's costly "virgin lands" program, aimed at increasing the harvests...
...Party Secretary Andrei Kirilenko, 76, used to be Brezhnev's understudy, but apparently lost out on a chance for the starring role because he is in poor health or political disgrace. But the new man could have cause for concern about the ambitions of tough Ukrainian Party Boss Vladimir Shcherbitsky, 64. Half a dozen others figured in the handicapping for the succession to Brezhnev and still wield great power. Five of them are voting members of the Politburo...